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Term 4 percentages

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Percentages, fractions and decimals

Decimals are another way of writing fractions.
Percentages are another way of writing hundredths.

Because decimals are part of the base-ten place value system, the clearest connections between decimals and fractions occur where the denominator of a fraction is a power of ten:
1/10 = 0.1

3/100 = 0.03

6/1000 = 0.006

What do you know?1.

Sarah's bank account increased by 54%. If bank account was $600, it is now worth:
- A. $924
- B. $324
- C. $276
- D. $876

2. What is 5% as a decimal
- A. 0.5
- B. 5
- C. 0.005
- D. 0.05

3. There are 321,200 people who played tennis last year, this year the number of players has decreased by 6%. How many people played tennis this year?
- A. 128,480
- B. 301,928
- C. 340,472
- D. 308,352

4. What is 12.3 as a percentage?
- A. 1230%
- B. 12.3%
- C. 1.23%
- D. 123%

5. 16% of people have red hair. In a group of 300 people how many would have red hair?
- A. 16
- B. 32
- C. 48
- D. 64

6. What is 9% of 61
- A. 54.9
- B. 9.31
- C. 4.96
- D. 5.49

7. Julie got 98 out of 140 for a science exam, what percentage did she get?
- A. 98%
- B. 70%
- C. 68%
- D. 78%

8. 5 out of 8 students attended the Meeting, what percentage is this?
- A. 1.6%
- B. 160%
- C. 72%
- D. 62.5%

9. Jordan lost 30% of his marbles, what is this as a Fraction in it's simplest form?
- A. 30 / 100
- B. 3 / 10
- C. 30 / 1000
- D. 3 / 100

10. What is 6.5% as a fraction, in it's simplest form?
- A. 6.5 / 100
- B. 13 / 200
- C. 0.65 / 10
- D. 65 / 200

11. Sally calculated that 34% of students ride the bus to school, this percentage as a fraction is ___ (remember to simplify fully. write your fraction in the from x/y)

12. Out of 400 students, if 34% of students ride the bus to school, the number of students that ride the bus is ___

13. 11% as a fraction is (remember to simplify fully. write your fraction in the from x/y)

14. If 21.3% of Australians watch cricket, this percentage as a decimal is ___

15. The fraction 7/8 is written as the percentage (write your answer to 1 decimal place)

16. For a English test, Sally got 7/10, John got 24/40 and Sam got 15/20. The person who got the best test percentage was

17. 0.71 as a percentage is ___

18. 86% of students passed their Maths exam. If 600 students sat the exam, the number of people who FAILED is ___

19. 35% of $650 is ___

20. 14% of $310 is ___

21. 6 out of 15 as a percentage is ___

22. Gary has 30 animals on his small farm. He has 16 cows, 11 sheep, 2 donkeys and 1 horse. The percentage of Gary's animals that are sheep is

23. A hat that is worth $300 is on sale and is reduced by 40%, the amount that you would save is ___

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What is giftedness?

Do any of these describe you?

You see patterns in problems, and links to problems you have solved before.
Numbers and number problems ‘just make sense’ to you.
You often see how to solve a problem before others in the class.
You are very good at explaining maths ideas to others.
You learn new things in maths quickly.
Once you start working on a maths problem you want to keep working on it until you solve it.
You can solve puzzles more easily than others.
You can get bored in maths class when you have to repeat something you already know and can do.
You enjoy maths challenges and sometimes like to do them in your own time.
You see connections between maths ideas easily.
You like creating your own sophisticated constructions (e.g. with lego)
You get frustrated when asked to explain problem solving strategies step by step when you can just see the solution.